The Parking Spot

I work for a medium sized company that still has a small size feel. Which is pretty cool in general but it does come with its quirks. The parking lot is one of our quirks. There are no assigned spaces (other then for the executives) but people have their unofficial assigned spaces. [...]

8 Random Facts Even My Mom Doesn’t Know About

I haven’t been tagged and I’m not tagging anyone – just sharing some oddball facts about myself. What a cheesy way to get another post out…

- It took me at least 25 years of organized baseball and softball before I finally got the career cycle (single, double, triple, homer). I was always a punch [...]

Fitness Tip

This is from a newsletter my health insurance company put out promoting personal fitness:

Who the heck is getting [...]

Snaps…

As promised, some snaps from the Disney Marathon weekend (and one from eagle watching thrown in). Disposable camera so the quality is not exactly stellar, but there you go.

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Great Expectorations

Every runner has their quirks. One of mine happens to be spitting. Not in the act itself but in where I direct my saliva.

When I started running a couple years ago, my first routes were thru my neighborhood. Where I live, the street is like most other subdivision streets: wide for its height, silent for its [...]

Nature Says…

Since daylight savings time is no more, I’m running in the dark during the week. Jason suggested that I try not to get hit by a car or a lancer. One way to make this less likely is to wear a head lamp. So I visited my local running store – Fleet Feet – and found [...]

By The Numbers

100 minutes – Brian’s ultimate goal time for a half marathon
100 calories burned while running one mile
100 calories in one Gu packet
100 Gu packets consumed by Team Flash during 15 weeks of long runs
100 fast laps around the Rockwood high school track during Fleet Feet’s summertime interval sessions
100 degrees F – the highest temperature that we [...]

Comics and Costumes

Yesterday’s paper had this comic in it:

Kathy commented that maybe the downed runner would be her – since she’s had the balky ankle.  I said “No way!  The DC area keeps a close watch on their strays so there is little chance that dogs would attack you after you can’t continue.”  But that’s a seriously negative [...]

New PR

I skipped my planned interval effort yesterday because I accompanied Kathy to a fancy dress-up dinner. She was there on Boeing’s dime to receive a MAJOR AWARD. Boeing recognizes special inventors each year and Kathy and some of her colleagues were recognized for their efforts on a simulation tool they developed and now have [...]

Cross Training in the Yard

I obsess over my Garmin data. I never do any kind of crosstraining at all. So I thought I’d try to remedy my lack of crosstraining by coming up with a way to turn work into play. So my spectacular idea was to mow my yard while wearing the big G! That [...]